Arkansas Coach Bobby Petrino Crashes Motorcycle at LinesMaker

Arkansas Coach Bobby Petrino Crashes Motorcycle

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino veered off a two-lane high­way and crashed his motor­cy­cle over the week­end, send­ing him to a hos­pi­tal and leav­ing him in what his fam­ily described only as “sta­ble con­di­tion.” He is expected to make a full recovery.

Petrino crashed Sun­day night near a small town 20 miles south­east of Fayet­teville. State police spokesman Bill Sadler said the Razor­backs coach was taken to a hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, but he declined to say which hos­pi­tal or whether Petrino was still there Monday.

The uni­ver­sity con­firmed the crash and issued a state­ment from Petrino’s fam­ily that dis­closed no details about any poten­tial injuries.

“Coach Petrino was involved in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent on Sun­day evening that involved no other indi­vid­u­als,” the state­ment said. “He is in sta­ble con­di­tion and is expected to make a full recov­ery. Our fam­ily appre­ci­ates respect for our pri­vacy dur­ing the recov­ery and we are grate­ful for the thoughts of Razor­back fans at this time.”

Nei­ther Wash­ing­ton Regional Med­ical Cen­ter in Fayet­teville or North­west Med­ical Cen­ter in Spring­dale would con­firm Petrino was a patient. The school said ath­letic direc­tor Jeff Long would con­sult with the Petrino fam­ily before pro­vid­ing any addi­tional information.

The crash occurred near the town of Crosses on Arkansas High­way 16, a wind­ing road pop­u­lar with motor­cy­clists in the rolling hills of Madi­son County. Sadler said Petrino’s motor­cy­cle left the high­way and crashed.

Petrino led Arkansas to an 11–2 record last sea­son and a Cot­ton Bowl win over Kansas State. He’s 34–17 in four sea­sons at the school, 21–5 over the last two, and has built the Razor­backs into a South­east­ern Con­fer­ence power.

An avid motor­cy­cle enthu­si­ast, the 51-year-old Petrino has talked about own­ing a motor­cy­cle and going for rides around north­ern Arkansas.

In a 2008 inter­view with North­west Arkansas Media, Petrino said he has been an avid rider since he was 10. The Helena, Mont., native said at the time that he owned a Harley-Davidson and four other motorcycles.

“It’s relax­ing to me,” Petrino said then. “You get out and you get to see some good scenery, and I like to ride up to Beaver Lake. It’s pretty up there. I’ve been around the out­doors. I grew up around the out­doors my whole life.”

Petrino said he had never been in a bad acci­dent on a motor­cy­cle, though he and his friends had some mishaps.

“Well, there was always the school of hard knocks,” Petrino said. “We fell off a few times and learned about it.”

Since his arrival at Arkansas, Petrino has turned the Razor­backs into a national con­tender. They were 5–7 dur­ing his first sea­son in 2008 before improv­ing to 8–5 in 2009, win­ning the Lib­erty Bowl over East Carolina.

That was Ryan Mallett’s first sea­son as the start­ing quar­ter­back at Arkansas and was the first of three straight sea­sons the Razor­backs have led the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence in pass­ing. Mal­lett left for the NFL after 2010, but only after guid­ing Arkansas to its first BCS game, where it lost to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl to fin­ish the sea­son 10–3.

Even with­out Mal­lett last sea­son, Arkansas excelled behind quar­ter­back Tyler Wil­son, who earned first-team All-SEC hon­ors under Petrino’s guid­ance. The Razor­backs were ranked No. 5 to fin­ish the sea­son, with their only losses com­ing to national cham­pion Alabama and runner-up LSU.

Petrino was an NFL coach, leav­ing the Atlanta Fal­cons after 13 games in the 2007 sea­son to join the Razor­backs. He was a col­lege head coach at Louisville before that, guid­ing the Car­di­nals to a 41–9 record from 2003-07.

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